Australian educational institutions enjoy a well deserved high international reputation for excellence in all areas of education and training and the degrees offered by them are recognized and respected throughout the world.
Australia offers a dynamic learning environment. The teaching processes encourage independent thinking and problem solving.
The Australian Government plays a pro-active role in ensuring that international students who come to Australia for their studies have legal protection.The Education Services for Overseas students Act (ESOS Act) ensure that students get the quality course for which they have paid besides providing many other assurances to the international students and their families.
Its university sector was originally based on the British system, with famous universities like Oxford and Cambridge founding colleges in Australia. Yet in this century, the Australian university sector has also emulated American methods of teaching and course structures. Put this together with reforms and developments throughout the 1970s, 1980s and in this decade, and you have a uniquely structured academic sector driven by a desire to achieve excellence.
Australia provides limitless opportunities and a wide variety of courses. Students can select from thousands of courses with an inbuilt flexibility to choose pathways that sub serve their long term career goals.
Institutions deliver practical and career-oriented training that equips students with skills demanded by the employers.
The Australian approach to vocational education and training is now recognized as amongst the best and most innovative in the world. Its vocational education and training institutions deliver a wide variety of courses and provide students with career focused skills prized by employers.
Emphasis is laid on technology-based learning and the universities have earned a reputation for their innovative and research-intensive culture.
The system is devised to speedily and effectively adapt to changing circumstances with the capacity to respond flexibly to the changing requirements of the labour market.
Academic staff in Australian education institutions are recruited from around the world and often are leading industry experts in their field. Most of them have long experience in teaching international students. The variety of teaching and learning methods is also uniquely varied, and has something for almost any student from any cultural background and aspiration.
Australian universities stress on internationalization of their higher education and research and participate actively in international education and research projects and initiatives. Each year student and staff exchange programs are forged from Australia's international links with esteemed educational institutions in the USA, UK, Canada, Europe and Asia.
Facilities for teaching, training and research are world-class in terms of state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms, outstanding libraries and modern technology.
International students holding student visas are permitted to work in Australia on a casual basis for up to twenty hours per week during course time and full-time during vacations.
Australia enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world. Living costs and student fees are very affordable and Australia is consistently less expensive than the UK or USA.
With international students from over 200 countries, Australia is one of the most multicultural, safe, friendly and racially tolerant country in the world.